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😱 Ark Invest just dropped some wild numbers In 2025, AI-generated words officially outnumbered words written by humans — for the first time in history. At this pace, AI will surpass the entire 500-year archive of human-written text before 2030. And it's already reshaping Telegram. Channels are quietly replacing human editors with automated tools — and one of the most interesting examples is @morty, built by the @maxim team. It finds relevant content on its own, writes it in the channel's voice, and leaves just one thing for the human: hit "Approve". More media projects are going AI-first. And according to Ark Invest, this is only the beginning.

Virtual Reality in a Browser If the price of a VR helmet is too high, but you wish to experience the reality everyone is talking about, you should try Web VR, a cool service from Google. In fact, it is a collection of projects that simulate virtual reality right in your browser. Here you can find lots of ready-made projects, all of them are different, but our beloved is Konterball - online VR ping pong. You can play alone or with a friend. It is definitely worth checking it out (better yet, not just ping-pong), the theme is too promising.

Composing Music Using AI Ever fancied hearing a Mozart-inspired piano and harp concerto by Katy Perry? Why not? Well, because now you can do it with the help of MuseNet's neural network. MuseNet creates music you've never heard before, relying on its knowledge of the performers and a few bars to mimic it. The neural network has been trained on the works of dozens of artists, from famous historical figures such as Chopin and Bach to contemporary artists such as Adele and the Beatles, as well as on collections of African, Arabic, and Indian music.

Solving Rubik's Cube in Seconds We came across the app ASolver (available for iOS), which can solve various puzzles. It runs quite simple and clear: you scan your puzzle with the camera, and the program immediately shows you the moves to solve it. It's really convenient that you can start at any stage - not necessarily at the beginning. In general, that's a terrific example of what artificial intelligence and augmented reality can do.

Removing unnecessary objects from a photo If your picture was spoiled by a random passerby or a passing bird - no problem. With the Hama neural network, you can breathe a second life into your photo by removing everything unwanted from it. The service is simple: 1️⃣ Go to the site, click "Tap here to upload" and upload the picture. 2️⃣ Mark with an eraser the area where you want to remove the object (important: the size of the eraser can be adjusted). 3️⃣ Click on "Download" to save the image.

Assessing where it's most comfy to live. In order to easily figure out which city is worth moving to (or just to go on vacation), you can use the service NomadList. It systematizes all kinds of ratings of living standards in different countries. For example, in a couple of seconds, you can find out how a certain city is doing in terms of security, English proficiency, prices, ease of doing business, Internet, etc. A huge advantage is that all the data is collected on the basis of surveys of thousands of users, so there is no doubt about the reliability.

Meeting in pajamas. The Japanese hacked this life and came up with a dipfake app that dresses and coiffures users for video calls. It works pretty simple: you upload your photos in business attire, and the program shows that very image in zoom. The "Xpression camera" app is available on iOS and PC. Now no one will notice that you got up 5 minutes before the Zoom call. All that's left to do is figure out how not to work at all...

Map of all your movements around the world It's no big secret that Google tracks its users. If geolocation is enabled on your mobile device, you can be sure that Google already has a dossier on you. It costs nothing for the search service specialists to visualize it. However, you can do it yourself using the Location History Visualiser service. The service is able to create a heat map of all your movements based on Google data. To create a map you need: 1️⃣ Go to Google Takeout, select "Location History" only, and click "Create Export" 2️⃣ Unzip the archive, go to Location History Visualiser and select the file "Records.json" from the "Location History" folder 3️⃣ Click "LAUNCH HEATMAP"

How to resize videos on your iPhone to free up space We suggest using the Compress Videos app. If you just want to resize your videos without degrading the image quality, the app is capable of doing that, as well as solving other problems. 1. Download the app and launch it. 2. Press the "+" button on the app's main screen, then select the video you want to resize, then press "Next". 3. On the "Compression Settings" screen, make sure that you keep the maximum possible frame rate. 4. With the desired video resolution selected, click the "Compress" button. 5. To delete the original and free up space on your iPhone, press the "Delete Original" button.

Computer graphics beyond the real world. In the video above, we see a conventional train station... but! Everything changes when you find out that it is a pre-rendered scene on the game engine Unreal Engine 5. It's too early to talk about its widespread adoption, though, the UE5 engine has been released for development studios and its testing has just begun.

How to instantly make a screen recording? If you don't need to record screen recordings too often, but occasionally such a need arises, it is best to use the service ScreenREC. No need to download any additional programs - everything works directly in your browser, without ads and, most importantly, without watermarks. How to use: 1. Choose a format (MP4 or WebM). 2. Click on red button "I'm ready to record". 3. Next, select what we will record (the whole screen, a specific window or tab). 4. After that we press the red button to stop recording and click on "Download now".

Getting rid of watermarks on an image You must be annoyed by watermarks and long search for the original picture too. We solve this problem with the help of iMyFone MarkGo service. Such a tool allows you to get rid of unnecessary elements on the photo: install it, highlight the watermark and press "Delete". In a few seconds, the AI gives you a "clean" image without any traces, and we have only to download it. And the service also works in the opposite direction, giving you the opportunity to add a watermark to the photo. It is available on Windows and Mac (in general, an app is paid, but offers a trial period, so you can safely use it).

Create a unique fake persona. If you need to design a fake social media account, taking a photo of an existing person is not a good idea. At the very least, it can easily be recognized (and some photos have copyrights). Better to use the service 100,000 Faces - a project based on artificial intelligence that creates faces in photos from scratch. The settings allow you to choose different parameters (down to the emotion expressed and ethnic traits). The generated image can be used for any purpose without worrying about copyrights.

How to decode pixelated text Some days, it seems that neural networks can do anything, and Unredacter confirms it. It takes edited text and brings it back to its original form. Unredacter is unique in that it can pick up the text hidden behind the pixels letter by letter, allowing us to read the content. So never use pixels if you wish to hide something in a photo 😏 It's best to use colored squares or black bars.

How to automatically close Safari tabs? Starting with iOS 13, Safari will be able to take care of your forgotten tabs. Users have the option to configure the program so that the tabs that they have not seen recently will automatically close after a day, a week or a month of being in an inactive state. You can configure this feature by going to: Settings → Safari → Close tabs

How to speed up the Chrome browser? The perennial problem of Google Chrome is high RAM consumption. Therefore, if you have a browser hangs while working, you can try to optimize it. To speed up the browser you need: 1️⃣ Turn on Chrome and type "chrome://flags/#smooth-scrolling" in the address bar and switch the position to "Enabled" 2️⃣ Type "chrome://flags/#ignore-gpu-blocklist" in the address bar and turn it on as well 3️⃣ Restart the browser.

Dipfake image verification Increasingly, users on the Internet are using AI-generated faces in their avatars. Therefore, if you need to know if a profile image is fake, you can use the Fake Profile Detector extension. Fake Profile Detector is an extension that detects if a user's avatar is fake. It's AI-powered, and detects fake photos with 99% accuracy. Just install the extension, give permission for notifications, open the desired picture or avatar, click on PKM and select "Check Fake Profile Picture". You will soon receive a notification with the results of the check.

Visualize the sound of a vinyl record With Revolv AR, you can visualize the sound of records in real time😍 The way this happens is that a cyclic sound waveform graphic is emitted from the turntable stylus, generated in augmented reality. As a result, the recording comes to life. It works, by the way, with any player. So get your hands on it, vinyl and AR lovers.

How to copy text from a picture in a few seconds Everyone has faced the situation when you need to copy text from a photo or video, but it takes a lot of time. We recommend using the Copyfish extension. It can recognize all the characters in any image, video, PDF document, screenshot, or error message. As a result, you'll get the extracted text and its translation by Google Translate. 1. Open the desired photo in your browser and click on the plugin icon. 2. Select the area of the picture. 3. A window will automatically appear with the translation and the text - you can copy it by clicking.

How to remove undesirable objects from a photo? If your picture was spoiled by a random passerby or a passing bird, no problem. You can use the Hama neural network to remove everything unnecessary from it. The service is simple: 1️⃣ Go to the site, click "Tap here to upload" and download the picture. 2️⃣ Mark with an eraser the area with the object you want to remove (important: the size of the eraser can be adjusted). 3️⃣ Click on "Download" to save the image.